My current body of work features only black and white. I like to illustrate the interconnected harmony of qualities we like to think are opposites, such as black and white,  movement and stillness, reflection and experience, dreams and reality, the mind and the body, and individual experiences that can be universal. 

I focus on lines rather than shading because even with a single line, I can carve out believable, beautiful spaces. Lines can be textural or gestural. They show movement. They also build form. By limiting myself to one color or a single line, I keep my work focused on the moment I'm building, going deeper and eliminating the distraction of color, which I feel gives any piece of art a very particular sense of place, mood, or feeling.

In addition to these themes, memory is an important feature of my work. Many of my locations seem rooted in reality yet are dreamlike in appearance. That feature lends my work a grounded yet imaginative quality. It introduces a sense of wonder to a seemingly ordinary scene. I want my art to remind my viewers of their own very specific memory or of the more universal experience of skiing, running, hiking, etc. By projecting their own memories of experience, place, or time into my scenes, my viewers help me “finish” the drawing. As a result, each individual the drawing encounters becomes the missing piece that gives the image its true color and meaning.

Like the mountains that inspire my work, I hope my images inspire viewers in a way that’s personal and unique to each of them.